Re: xscreensaver

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Carl Hartshorn">

> 1). But does anyone know why Gnome tries to run 'xscreensaver' at startup?
> and, if that is intentional, where is xscreensaver supposed to be?
> (Part of XFree86 ?)

Yes, it is intentional, otherwise you wouldn't have a screensaver. It ought
to be in your path somewhere, most distributions include it.

> 2). how do I configure garnome so that it builds in one partition and installs 
> in another?

Put your build directory on the partition you want to build in, and set the
prefix to the partition you want to install in.

- Jeff

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